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(Message started by: DirkDiggler on Feb 4th, 2004, 8:13pm)
Title: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by DirkDiggler on Feb 4th, 2004, 8:13pm
Jeff Blake is released.

McCown is named the starter for 2004. ?
What a joke. He will start until their 2004 draft pick is ready to start in week 4 or 5. He sucks!

I will give Dennis Green props for releasing Blake now. It gives him a chance to sign on with another team.

Here is the link from the Real Feed:
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl/news/ABN3037573.htm
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Reprot
Post by BarnabyWilde on Feb 4th, 2004, 8:19pm
Nice grab DD. I wonder if Green really does believe in McNown, or if they will take big Ben in round one. Trading down is always an option, if Denny is for real. But I think you are correct, they'll draft a QB andhe start sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by StegRock on Mar 21st, 2004, 5:39pm
Well, another Cardinals running back in domestic trouble.  This is getting to be a trend.  From "The REAL Feed":

Cardinals RB Shipp under investigation
The Sports Network: NFL (21.03.2004 13:47)

Corroboration and further discussion from a LOCAL source on "the Gridiron Newsstand":

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/0321shipp0321.html.

Maybe Emmitt will see the ball more this year than has been expected...  Naaaaaa! ;)
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by StegRock on Jun 9th, 2004, 12:56pm
Given all the uncertainty here,... I just think it is worth mentioning...  From "The REAL Feed":

Stanford QB Lewis signs with Cardinals
SI.com: NFL (09.06.2004 01:35)

Here is the press release from the official site available on "the Gridiron Newsstand":

http://www.azcardinals.com/press/pressdetails.php?sid=1989.

You never know how things might shake out in Cardinal-land.  This guy might just wind up being a factor. [smiley=shrug.gif]
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by Philly on Jun 9th, 2004, 1:05pm

on 06/09/04 at 12:56:13, StegRock wrote:
Stanford QB Lewis signs with Cardinals

You never know how things might shake out in Cardinal-land.  This guy might just wind up being a factor. [smiley=shrug.gif]


I seriously doubt it.  Maybe I'm being cynical here, but the way I see it, McCown is #1, King is #2 (in case McCown isn't the guy the Sheriff says he is), and Navarre is the #3.

Chris Lewis didn't get a sniff from anyone up until now.  Interestingly, he is a Stanford player.  Now the Cards released their #4 QB a week ago.  They'll have a spot on their practice squad for a rookie QB.  Denny Green probably still knows people at Stanford...

Looks like a favor to me more than anything else.  I'd be very surprised it Lewis isn't placed on the practice squad for the 2004 season.
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by Philly on Jun 17th, 2004, 2:04pm
Attention Shipp owners!


http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/0617emmitt.html


Quote:
Cardinals Coach Dennis Green concluded the team's off-season practices Thursday by announcing a lineup change: Emmitt Smith is back as the team's no. 1 running back.
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by DirkDiggler on Jun 17th, 2004, 2:40pm

on 06/17/04 at 14:04:41, Philly wrote:
Attention Shipp owners!


http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/0617emmitt.html



This is a joke.  No way that he starts the season.  Marcell Shipp has too much to bring, while Emmitt's tank has run out.
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by Philly on Jun 17th, 2004, 2:44pm

on 06/17/04 at 14:40:50, DirkDiggler wrote:
This is a joke.  No way that he starts the season.  Marcell Shipp has too much to bring, while Emmitt's tank has run out.


I think it is probably just a motivational tool to light a fire under Marcel Shipp.  I doubt it will last very long.
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by Callie on Jun 17th, 2004, 8:29pm
As I said on the wrong thread  [smiley=drown.gif], Green must be taking AFC West lessons. :D
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by Callie on Aug 7th, 2004, 1:32am
Aug 7, 12:47 AM (ET)

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona Cardinals running back Marcel Shipp will be sidelined at least two months after dislocating his left ankle during an intrasquad scrimmage Friday night.
Shipp got caught underneath a pile during a routine running play and got his left leg wrenched in the artificial turf at Northern Arizona University's Skydome.

After several minutes on the turf, Shipp was loaded on a cart and led off the field.

The injury was not as bad as it initially appeared to be, Cardinals coach Dennis Green said.

"It did not break through the skin, which means it probably does not need an operation," Green said.

Shipp led the Cardinals with 830 yards rushing last year, including games of 165 and 141 yards.

"He took a bad spill and it don't look good right now," Emmitt Smith said of Shipp. "But he's young and resilient and he's in great shape.

"I've been on football fields for a long time and I've seen some bad things happen, but not many to people I've been close to. The kid is a like a brother to me. Watching him go down is like watching a brother go down. It hurts."
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by Philly on Aug 9th, 2004, 9:41am

on 08/07/04 at 01:32:52, Callie wrote:
The injury was not as bad as it initially appeared to be, Cardinals coach Dennis Green said.

"It did not break through the skin, which means it probably does not need an operation," Green said.


Guess again Denny...

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/04cardscamp/0808cardsnb0808.html

Now there is some thought that Shipp could miss the entire season.  He has a fracture that will require pins to be placed in his fibula.  Plus he dislocated his ankle too.

Looks like Emmitt will get a chance to start and right now it appears that Josh Scobey and Damien Anderson will back him up.  The article also mentions that Larry Croom (an undrafted Rookie FA) has looked good in camp.  He was a very good college RB who could be a sleeper if things work out for him.
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by Callie on Aug 11th, 2004, 10:50pm
Yeah, and now Boldin is out for 8 - 12 weeks.  Good for Fitzgerald owners, bad for Cards fans.

http://www.azcardinals.com/press/pressdetails.php?sid=2096

[smiley=caughtonthecan.gif]
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by sexydexy on Aug 12th, 2004, 5:44am
There are Cardinals fans?

::) :P
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by StegRock on Aug 31st, 2004, 9:14pm
Cards add Hambrick to the mix...  From "the Gridiron Newsstand"...

http://eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=27269;

http://www.azcardinals.com/press/pressdetails.php?sid=2163.
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by DUKE0313 on Aug 31st, 2004, 9:32pm
Is Hambrick just going to follow Emmitt around until the day he dies???
Title: Re: Cardinals Off-Season Report
Post by DB on Sep 2nd, 2004, 9:48pm

Quote:
the cards just reach out and kick emmitt in the nuts ...the man was on his team & trash talkin' him - sucked - got cut - went to oakland, sucked - got cut...and of ALL people to bring into camp, they drag him right back to where emmitt smith is trying to put together another chance (one i think he should've deferred - but anyway...)
man, emmit's gotta be hating life


Additionally, the Cards signed two Cowboy reject RBs today, Avion Cason and a guy who was on Dallas' practice  squad named Smith.

?.?.? ?.?.?

I don't know what to make of this Cardinals running back situation.  I guess they don't like Scobey or Anderson.  It is very bizarre IMO. :-/


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